Cremello

Cremello is a beautiful horse color! It is a horse coat color that consists of a cream colored body with a cream or white mane and tail. It is the result of the action of two cream genes on a red (chestnut or sorrel) horse. Where one cream gene on a red produces a Palomino, two of them create the cremello! A Cremello will always have pink skin and blue eyes. If the horse had dark eyes or skin, then it is not a Cremello.

Cremello horses are not white as well as not albino: they do not have a white hair coat nor do they have non-pigmented eyes. A horse who has a "red," or chestnut, base coat and is heterozygous for the dilution gene, that is, has only a single copy of the gene, or a "single dilution" is a palomino. Most palominos have a golden coat with a white mane and tail, and usually have dark eyes (though occasional individuals have blue eyes due to other factors). A single dilution gene acting on a bay base coat produces a buckskin colored horse.

The cremello gene can be found in any breed that also produces palomino or buckskin coloring, including the American Quarter Horse and the Morgan.